Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines : evidence bearing on causality /
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Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 464 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105918 |
Table of Contents:
- Executive summary
- Causality and evidence
- Causality
- Sources of evidence for causality
- Summarizing the evidence for causality
- Neurologic disorders
- Demyelinating disease
- Non-demyelinating disease
- Immunologic reactions
- Anaphylaxis
- Interaction of antibody with normal tissue antigens
- Arthus reaction
- Delayed-type hypersensitivity
- Effect of vaccines on the immune system
- Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids
- Background and history
- Biologic events following immunization
- Encephalopathy
- Residual seizure disorder
- Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Neuropathy
- Arthritis
- Erythema multiforme
- Anaphylaxis
- Death
- Measles and mumps vaccines
- Background and history
- Biologic events following immunization
- Encephalopathy and encephalitis
- Aseptic meningitis
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- Residual seizure disorder
- Sensorineural deafness
- Optic neuritis
- Transverse myelitis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- Sterility due to orchitis.
- (cont) Thrombocytopenia
- Anaphylaxis
- Death
- Polio vaccines
- Background and history
- Biologic events following immunization
- Poliomyelitis
- Transverse myelitis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Anaphylaxis and thrombocytopenia
- Death
- Hepatitis B vaccines
- Background and history
- Biologic events following immunization
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Other demyelinating diseases
- Arthritis
- Anaphylaxis
- Death
- Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccines
- Background and history
- Biologic events following immunization
- Transverse myelitis
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Thrombocytopenia
- Early susceptibility to H. influenzae type b
- Anaphylaxis
- Death
- Examples
- Reports of death identified from VAERS
- Vaccine-specific data concerning death after immunization
- Need for research and surveillance
- Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids
- Measles and mumps vaccines
- Polio vaccines
- Hepatitis B vaccines
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Death
- Simultaneous administration of more than one vaccine
- Risk-modifying factors
- General surveillance and epidemiologic studies.